insane asylum

Noun

Meaning

a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

institution asylum psychiatric hospital mental hospital mental institution mental home bedlam sanatorium madhouse sanitarium snake pit nuthouse funny farm booby hatch nut house

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Hypernyms

infirmary hospital

Hyponyms

bedlam sanatorium madhouse snake pit nuthouse funny farm

Examples

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. Antonin Artaud

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe. Albert Einstein

I never was. When I left the hospital I was still in America and all America is an insane asylum. Ezra Pound

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. Colin Mochrie

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. Robert W. Welch, Jr.

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum. George Bernard Shaw

Close letter words and terms

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